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Redirecting a link to a specific page in the Web Listener

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Mon, 11/23/2009 - 14:38 — Doug
It is straightforward to link your main web site to a specific page within the Theatre Manager web listeners if you construct a link using the following syntax:

http:// tickets. yourvenue. org [/TheatreManager/1/login[&action=0|number][&lang=XX][&tmsource=YYY]]

where the meaning of the parts of the above syntax is:

  • http:// tickets. yourserver. com is the direct link to the Theatre Manager web server. It is the only part that is mandatory.
  • /TheatreManager/1/login - if supplied, is used by the apache server to direct the user to the theatre manager web listeners and begin the sales process. The '1' is replaced by your outlet number in a multi-outlet site. In most cases, it is '1' corresponding to the '1' folder within the standard 'htdocs' web page structure.
  • &action=0|number - 'action=' is replaced by one of the specific words as shown in the sections that follow (eg action might be 'event' or 'pass' or 'donation'). If you use 0 as the parameter, the user will be able to start at the selection process for 'action'. If you use a specific number as the parameter, then the user will be placed directly at the start of the sales process for the 'action'. For ticket sales web page access, there are some other options as described below.
  • &lang=XX - if you build a multi language web site, you can direct the user to begin using a language you specify. &lang=EN is the default. There must be a WebPagesXX folder for each language you want to support
  • &tmsource=yyy - which is an additional parameter that can be used to detect the web site referrer and attach it to a shopping cart. The idea with this is that you might tie the source to an eblast, another web site, your own site, some tourism source, etc. The value 'yyy' is attached to a shopping cart and once a value is in the cart, it cannot be changed. This means that the first source (or referrer) is used. Note: the source can also be set using a cookie if you want instead of a command line argument. For additional steps on setting up source references, click here.